Youngest Singles Champion – Pete Sampras (1990), 19 years, 0 months, 28 days
Youngest Doubles Champion – Vincent Richards (1918), 15 years, 4 months, and 26 days
Youngest Doubles Champion (Open Era) – Lleyton Hewitt (2000), 19 years, 6 months, 13 days
Youngest Player – Tommy Ho (1988) was the youngest player to play, at the age of 15 years,
2 months and 14 days, when he lost in straight sets to Johan Kriek in the first round.
Youngest Player to Win a Match – Vincent Richards (1918) was the youngest ever to win a
singles match, at the age of 15 years, 5 months and 8 days. After winning his first round by
default, Richards defeated Frank T. Anderson in the following round. Michael Chang is the
youngest male to win a match in the Open Era. In 1987, at the age of 15 years, 6 months and 10
days, he defeated Paul McNamee on the opening day of the tournament.
Oldest Champion – Bill Larned was 38 years, 8 months and 3 days when he won the last of
his seven singles titles in 1911. Since the end of the Challenge Round (which was 1911), Bill
Tilden in 1929 has been the oldest titlist at 36 years, 7 months, 4 days.
Oldest Singles Champion (Open Era) – Ken Rosewall (1970), 35 years, 10 months, 11days
Oldest First-Time Champion – Vic Seixas was 31 years, 7 days when he won the 1954 final.
Wilmer Allison was 30 years, 9 months in 1935.
Oldest Doubles Champion – Bob Hewitt (1977), 37 years, 243 days

Youngest Singles Champion – Tracy Austin (1979), 16 years, 8 months and 28 days
Youngest Player – Kathy Horvath (1979) was five days past her 14th birthday when she lost a
first round match to Dianne Fromholtz (7-6, 6-2) after playing through the qualifier.
Youngest Player to Win a Match – Mary Joe Fernandez was 14 years and 8 days when she defeated Sara Gomer on August 27, 1985.
Youngest Doubles Champion (All Time) – Martina Hingis (1998), 17 years, 11 months, 13 days;
May Sutton (1904), 17 years, 11 months, 14 days; Serena Williams (1999), 17 years, 11 months, 16 days
Oldest Champion – Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, born in 1884, was 42 when she won the 1926
singles championship. The oldest champion of the Open Era was Margaret Court, who won the
last of her five U.S. titles in 1973 at the age of 31 years, 1 month and 23 days.
Oldest Doubles Champion – Hazel Wightman (1928), 41 years, 257 days

Martina Navratilova is the only player in Open Era to win the title having saving match point – in 1986 she
saved 3mp in semifinal versus Graf

In 2009 Kim Clijsters became the first wildcard to win a Grand Slam title, and the first player not seeded in Top
10 to win the US Open title

The singles title has been successfully defended 22 times, most recently by Serena Williams (2012-14)

The top seed has won the US Open women’s singles 20 times in the Open Era. In the last 16 years, the top seed
has won here only four times: in 2002 (Serena Williams), 2007 (Justine Henin), 2013 (Serena Williams) and 2014 (Serena Williams)

Serena Williams in 2014 was last player to win the singles title without losing a set (also achieved the feat in 2008 and 2002)

Left-handers have only won 7 of the 127 stagings: Martina Navratilova (1983-84, 1986-87), Monica Seles
(1991-92) and Evelyn Sears (1970)

Only one player has won the US Open women’s singles title after winning the US Open girls’ singles title:
Lindsay Davenport (1992/1998)

Chris Evert reached 16 successive semifinals from 1971 to 1986

Serena Williams was the last player to win both the singles and doubles titles in the same year – 1999